The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, ran the numbers exclusively for Fortune.

"We won’t be able to fix the debt without touching Social Security, Medicare, defense, or revenue—the math just doesn’t work. And we can’t count on heroic growth rates or crashing interest rates," ...

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Nicole Huyer is a senior research associate in the Roe Institute at The Heritage Foundation. Since the budget is essentially financed by taxpayers, closing the gap means reduced borrowing and interest ...